“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”

Source: The Cat in the Hat

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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991

Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) American poet, translator

“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”

Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

“I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Here I am
And I stand
So tall
Just the way I'm supposed to be
But you're on to me
And all over me”

Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist

"Gravity"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“In the course of the last few generations, society has developed in such a way that we can live more and more safely, both financially and socially. We have got used to being able to pick and choose quite freely in big and small matters. Our circumstances are so good now that we have almost forgotten that our decisions also have consequences and that we cannot opt into or out of all life’s conditions.”

Margrethe II of Denmark (1940) Queen of Denmark

New Year's Address 2010/2011 http://kongehuset.dk/english/Menu/news/her-majesty-the-queens-new-year-address-2010 (01 January 2011). <br class="br">Society